SmartConsole Toolbars

Global Toolbar (top of SmartConsole)

	Description
	The main SmartConsole Menu. When SmartConsole is connected to a Security Management Server, this includes: Manage policies and layers Open Object Explorer New object (opens menu to create a new object) Publish session Discard session Session details Install policy Verify Access Control Policy Install Database Uninstall Threat Prevention policy Management High Availability Manage Licenses and Packages Global Properties View (opens menu to select a View to open)
	Create new objects or open the Object Explorer
	Install policy on managed gateways

Description

The main SmartConsole Menu. When SmartConsole is connected to a Security Management Server, this includes:

Manage policies and layers
Open Object Explorer
New object (opens menu to create a new object)
Publish session
Discard session
Session details
Install policy
Verify Access Control Policy
Install Database
Uninstall Threat Prevention policy
Management High Availability
Manage Licenses and Packages
Global Properties
View (opens menu to select a View to open)

Create new objects or open the Object Explorer

Install policy on managed gateways

Session Management Toolbar (top of SmartConsole)

	Description
	Discard changes made during the session
	Enter session details and see the number of changes made in the session.
	Publish changes, to make them visible to other administrators, and ready to install on gateways. Note - When the policy is installed, published changes are installed on the gateways and enforced.

Description

Discard changes made during the session

Enter session details and see the number of changes made in the session.

Publish changes, to make them visible to other administrators, and ready to install on gateways.

Note - When the policy is installed, published changes are installed on the gateways and enforced.

Navigation Toolbar (left side of SmartConsole)

	Keyboard Shortcut	Description
	Ctrl+1	Gateways & Servers configuration view: Manage Security Gateways Activate Software Blades Add, edit, or delete gateways and clusters (including virtual clusters) Run scripts Backup and restore gateways Open a command line interface on the gateway View gateway status
	Ctrl+2	Security Policies Access Control view: Manage Access Control: Content Awareness, VPN, Application and URL Filtering , and Mobile Access Edit multiple policies at the same time Add, edit, or delete NAT rules Use the Access Tools Security Policies Threat Prevention view: Manage Threat Prevention: IPS, Anti-Bot, Anti-Virus, Threat Emulation Edit the unified threat Rule Base Configure threat profiles Add, edit, or delete exceptions and exception groups Use the Threat Tools Shared Policies Views: Manage Mobile Access, DLP, Geo Policy and inspection Settings
	Ctrl+3	Logs & Monitor view: See high level graphs and plots Search through logs Schedule customized reports Monitor gateways See compliance information
	Ctrl+4	Manage & Settings view - review and configure the Security Management Server settings: Administrators Permissions profiles Trusted clients Administrator sessions, and session settings Blades Revisions Preferences Sync with User Center

Command Line Interface Button (left bottom corner of SmartConsole)

	Keyboard Shortcut	Description
	F9	Open a command line interface for management scripting and API

Objects Bar (right side of SmartConsole)

	Description
Objects	Manage security and network objects

Validations Pane (right side of SmartConsole)

	Description
Validations	See validation errors

System Information Area (bottom of SmartConsole)

	Description
Task List	See management tasks in progress and expand to see recent tasks
Server Details	See the IP address of the server to which SmartConsole is connected. If Management High Availability is configured, click to see the details.
Session Status	See the number of changes made in the session and the session status.
Connected administrators	See connected administrators: Yourself and others.

Search Engine

In each view you can search the Security Management Server database for information relevant to the view. For example:

Gateway, by name or IP address
Access Control rule
NAT rule
Threat Prevention profile
Specific threat or a threat category
Object tags

Access and Threat Tools

The Access Tools section in the Security Policies Access Control view and the Threat Tools section in the Security Policies Threat Prevention view give you more management and data collection tools.

Access Tools in the Security Policies Access Control view:

Tool	Description
VPN Communities	Create, edit, or delete VPN Communities.
Updates	Update the Application and URL Filtering database, schedule updates, and configure updates.
UserCheck	Configure UserCheck interaction objects for Access Control policy actions.
Client Certificates	Create and distribute client certificates that allow users to authenticate to the Gateway from handheld devices.
Application Wiki	Browse to the Check Point AppWiki. Search and filter the Web 2.0 Applications Database, to use Check Point security research in your policy rules for actions on applications, apps, and widgets.
Installation History	See the Policy installation history for each Gateway, and who made the changes. See the revisions that were made during each installation, and who made them. Install a specific version of the Policy.

Threat Tools in the Security Policies Threat Prevention view:

Tool	Description
Profiles	Create, edit, or delete profiles.
IPS Protections	Edit IPS protections per profile.
Protections	See statistics on different protections
Whitelist Files	Configure Whitelist Files list
Indicators	Configure indicators of malicious activity and how to handle it
Updates	Configure updates to the Malware database, Threat Emulation engine and images, and the IPS database.
UserCheck	Configure UserCheck interaction objects for Threat Prevention policy actions.
Threat Wiki	Browse to the Check Point ThreatWiki. Search and filter Check Point's Malware Database, to use Check Point security research to block malware before it enters your environment, and to best respond if it does get in.
Installation History	See the Policy installation history for each Gateway, and who made the changes. See the revisions that were made during each installation, and who made them. Install a specific version of the Policy.

Shared Policies

The Shared Policies section in the Security Policies shows the policies that are not in a Policy package. They are shared between all Policy packages.

Shared policies are installed with the Access Control Policy.

Software Blade	Description
Mobile Access	Launch Mobile Access policy in a SmartConsole. Configure how your remote users access internal resources, such as their email accounts, when they are mobile.
DLP	Launch Data Loss Prevention policy in a SmartConsole. Configure advanced tools to automatically identify data that must not go outside the network, to block the leak, and to educate users.
Geo Policy	Create a policy for traffic to or from specific geographical or political locations.
HTTPS Inspection	The HTTPS Policy allows the Security Gateway to inspect HTTPS traffic to prevent security risks related to the SSL protocol. The HTTPS Policy shows if HTTPS inspection is enabled on one or more Gateways. To learn more about HTTPS Inspection, see the R80.10 Next Generation Security Gateway Guide.
Inspection Settings	You can configure Inspection Settings for the Firewall: Deep packet inspection settings Protocol parsing inspection settings VoIP packet inspection settings

API Command Line Interface

You can also configure objects and rules through the API command line interface, which you can access from SmartConsole.

Click to open the command line interface.

Click to open the API reference (in the command line interface).

Use the Command Line Reference to learn about Session management commands, Host commands, Network commands, and Rule commands.

In addition to the command line interface, you can create and run API scripts to manage configuration and operations on the Security Management Server.

Object Categories

Objects in SmartConsole represent networks, devices, protocols and resources. SmartConsole divides objects into these categories:

Icon	Object Type	Examples
	Network Objects	Gateways, hosts, networks, address ranges, dynamic objects, security zones
	Services	Services, Service groups
	Custom Applications/Sites	Applications, Categories, Mobile applications
	VPN Communities	Site to Site or Remote Access communities
	Users	Users, user groups, and user templates
	Data Types	International Bank Account Number - IBAN, HIPAA - Medical Record Number - MRN, Source Code.
	Servers	Trusted Certificate Authorities, RADIUS, TACACS
	Time Objects	Time, Time groups
	UserCheck Interactions	Message windows: Ask, Cancel, Certificate Template, Inform, and Drop
	Limit	Download and upload bandwidth

Working with Objects

You can add, edit, delete, and clone objects. A clone is a copy of the original object, with a different name. You can also replace one object in the Policy with another object.

Note - Do not create two objects with the same name. You will see a validation error when you try to publish. To resolve, change one of the object names.

To work with objects, right-click the object in the object tree or in the Object Explorer, and select the action.

You can delete objects that are not used, and you can find out where an object is used.

To clone an object:

In the object tree or in the Object Explorer, right-click the object and select Clone.
The Clone Object window opens.
Enter a name for the cloned object.
Click OK.

To find out where an object is used:

In the object tree or in the Object Explorer, right-click the object and select Where Used.

To replace an object with a different object:

In the object tree or in the Object Explorer, right-click the object and select Where Used.
Click the Replace icon.
From the Replace with list, select an item.
Click Replace.

To delete all instances of an object:

In the object tree or in the Object Explorer, right-click the object and select Where Used.
Click the Replace icon.
From the Replace with list, select None (remove item).
Click Replace.

Object Tags

Object tags are keywords or labels that you can assign to the network objects or groups of objects for search purposes. These are the types of tags you can assign:

User tags - Assigned manually to individual objects or groups of objects
System tags - Predefined keywords, such as "application"

Each tag has a name and a value. The value can be static, or dynamically filled by detection engines.

Adding a Tag to an Object

To add a tag to an object:

Open the network object for editing.
In the Add Tag field, enter the label to associate with this object.
Press Enter.
The new tag shows to the right of the Add Tag field.
Click OK.